How to Create a Lasting Tradition for Baby's First Christmas

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Your baby's first Christmas is a great time to start a new tradition. Here's a few easy ways to create lasting memories.

Write a letter to your baby in the style of a Christmas letter, but instead of describing your activities and accomplishments for the year, focus on the baby. For example, talk about the day they were born, what kinds of things you did for his or her first outings, what their favorite toys or books are, where you traveled, what kind of milestones he/she reached this year, etc.

Write a letter just like this one to your child every year. Then give the box to her when they turn 18. It'll be a lasting chronicle of his or her life, something you'll both enjoy reading again and again.

Once your child moves out of the house, give them their collection of Christmas ornaments. That way, they can put it on their own Christmas tree! If you wrote the years on the ornaments, they can even look at them all and say "Wow, I got this when I was three years old!"

Once your child becomes a teenager (or at whatever age your child stops wanting to take pictures with Santa), present your child with the photo album of all their pictures with Santa. This is a great way for your children to look back and see what they looked like when they were little and how much they've changed each year!

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Make sure that you are consistent each year with who gives your child the ornament- Yourself or Santa Claus. If you rotate each year, it will confuse the child and may cause an early lack of belief in Santa!

This is a good holiday tradition because it's easy, yet it means a lot. Also, this is a good tradition for boys and girls! This is also a good tradition to start especially if you're planning on having more than one child, because it's easy enough to buy four ornaments if you have four children.

This tradition is a great one to start with your children, because they might start this tradition with children of their own someday!

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wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 19 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has also been viewed 24,532 times.